82nd Security Forces Squadron patch is up and Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) has been corrected. Up next, semi-custom LDO Mustang plaque, USS Columbus crest, USS Hawaii crest, USS Asheville crest, US Army Instructor badge, USS Columbia crest, 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade patch, USS Louisville crest, 27th Intel Sq crest, USS Texas crest, 497th ISR Group crest, USS North Carolina crest, Strategic Sealift Officer badge, USS Santa Fe crest, 756th Transportation Railway Shop Bn. crest, USS Mississippi crest, Builder Rating badge, USS Cheyenne crest, USS Jacksonville crest, USS Charlotte crest, USS Greeneville crest, USS Buffalo crest, USS Olympia crest, USS Jefferson City, USS Bremerton crest, USS Tucson crest. Items in italics have deadlines and will likely not be done in the order listed, items in bold are new additions to the queue since the last update.
I want to explain what I mean by “semi-custom”. The LDO Mustang plaque is not an official military emblem but it’s one I’ve been asked for several times. Hard and fast rule is if it’s not an official military emblem it’s custom modeling, and I charge at least $175 for a custom model. That’s $175 for a basic model with not much detail. This is not one of those. So far nobody has been willing to meet my price for it. This time though is different. This time I had been thinking about the new website I want to put up for non-military emblems. I have a bunch of stuff I’ve made that I would like to offer but I don’t want anything but official military emblems on this site. There also is the matter of price. I’m happy with my $25/$50 price structure for the military emblems, and I’m happy taking requests without charging for them. Any time the queue gets big I get suggestions to charge for requests, or charge for priority, or that obviously since this genre of modeling has turned out to be so popular I could get away with raising my price. I probably could. I simply don’t want to. Could that change in the future? Sure, but for right now that’s where it is. This other stuff though, is a different matter. It’s going to be priced on the same basis as custom modeling, how much time I spend on it. Not as much since I’ll be offering it for general sale where custom is confidential between me and the buyer, but not necessarily $25/$50. For instance, the M4 in my free sample is not a $25 model, that thing took me two weeks to make and I took pains to make it as accurate as I could. Anyway, I’m rambling, so I’ll cut to the chase. The LDO Mustang plaque will be available on another site at some point but will not be $25. If you want something that I have but don’t offer on this site, e-mail me and we’ll see if we can work something out.
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